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Tucked inside Rona Gurkewitz's purse is a brightly colored memo cube, the kind found at any office supply store, that this mathematician keeps close at hand just in case she has what she calls a "folding emergency."
2008-12-07 11:40:51
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Editor's note: Soft Skills at Work is a new column that will appear monthly, defining soft skills in more detail and offering practical tips to develop these skills. The activities of CONNECT!, a coalition of organizations in Anne Arundel County ...
2008-12-07 06:19:00
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NEXT to love, the greatest gift parents can give their children is the gift of imagination. Nurturing imagination begins in the earliest hours of a child's life with a mother's tender touch. Those children whose curiosity is nourished at home also do ...
2008-12-07 07:59:00
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Numbers, numbers everywhere -- and nowhere to hide. This is the theme of BusinessWeek columnist Stephen Baker's book, "The Numerati." BusinessWeek columnist Stephen Baker's new book, "The Numerati," details the tools and techniques that will ...
2008-12-07 08:20:00
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Nobel literature laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said Saturday that he took up writing only after poor eyesight stopped him from becoming a sailor. Arriving in Stockholm to receive the prestigious award, the 68-year-old ...
2008-12-07 09:18:00
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DAYTON — Six Dayton-area high schools have been honored by U.S. News and World Report as being among America's best public high schools. New to this year's list was Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton, which received a bronze award. The magazine ...
2008-12-06 09:58:00
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A new book explores the mathematical tricks that make our lives easier.
2008-12-07 09:10:01
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David Svaldi is president of Adams State College in Alamosa. I recently read a letter to the editor in a regional newspaper objecting to a tax increase to replace aging school buildings. The gist of it was that the old decaying school buildings were ...
2008-12-07 01:25:00
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Education Minister Naledi Pandor, concerned at the freedom of expression furore engulfing the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), has called on the varsity's council to restore internal and public confidence in the institution. In an online interview ...
2008-12-07 02:30:00
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As the cost of going to college rises, local college students are getting, well, smart. Book smart, yes, but also savvy about using every economic opportunity that comes their way. No matter how small. Yes, tuitions are going up while salaries are ...
2008-12-07 02:58:00
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Lawmakers should approve test program to allow companies to fund scholarships for kids from poor school districts. Not providing a child a quality education -- that's a life sentence. In this country, with few exceptions, it's hard to escape poverty ...
2008-12-07 02:01:00
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NEW YORK — Martha “Sunny” von Bulow died yesterday at age 76. The heiress had spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband. She died at a ...
2008-12-07 03:20:00
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As a boy growing up in Point Place during the early 1950s, Kenneth Dickson heard the stories about notorious Prohibition-era bootlegger Jack Kennedy - particularly Kennedy's 1935 ambush murder on 140th Street while he and a girlfriend walked to a ...
2008-12-07 04:17:00
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DANBURY — Tucked inside Rona Gurkewitz’s purse is a brightly colored memo cube, the kind found at any office supply store, that this mathematician keeps close at hand just in case she has what she calls a “folding emergency.” A master origami ...
2008-12-07 05:14:00
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The graduation and dropout rate for students in the Columbia School District are continuing to improve, topping the state average in both categories and serving as 10-year bests for the district. According to a report released by the Florida ...
2008-12-07 05:00:00
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